University of Arkansas at Little Rock

 Dave McAlpine, a faculty member at UALR for  sixteen years, is a Professor of Spanish and  Second Language Education and  Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the  Department of International and Second  Languages Studies  at UALR. For fourteen years, he served as chairperson of the International and Second Language Studies department after teaching 12 years at Morningside College in Iowa, and 10 years teaching Spanish in junior and senior high schools in Nebraska. Dr. McAlpine holds a BA in Spanish from Wayne State College, an MA in Spanish from the Universidad Internacional, and a doctorate in FL Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Dakota.

Thoughts on ATLE

I am pleased to be serving as one of the inaugural directors for ATLE. ATLE offers UALR a chance to showcase its excellent faculty to the campus. During my interview for the position, I stressed the fact that one of UALR’s best kept secrets is the outstanding quality of its faculty, who are truly world-class. Faculty at UALR are not only researchers, but bring their research specialties into the classroom to enrich the education of their students. It is this expertise that ATLE would like to share with the entire faculty in order to improve our own teaching and to make use of new techniques in our classes to better the educational experiences for all UALR students.